Recent accounting pronouncements and interpretations

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Sep. 30, 2011

Recent accounting pronouncements and interpretations

Recent accounting pronouncements and interpretations

12 · Recent accounting pronouncements and interpretations

Troubled debt restructuring.  In April 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2011-02, “Receivables (Topic 310): A Creditor’s Determination of Whether a Restructuring Is a Troubled Debt Restructuring,” which clarifies which loan modifications constitute TDRs and is intended to assist creditors in determining whether a modification of the terms of a receivable meets the criteria to be considered a TDR, both for purposes of recording an impairment loss and for disclosure of TDRs. In evaluating whether a restructuring constitutes a TDR, a creditor must separately conclude that both (a) the restructuring constitutes a concession by the creditor; and (b) the debtor is experiencing financial difficulties. Clarifying guidance is provided on a creditor’s evaluation of whether it has granted a concession and whether a debtor is experiencing financial difficulties.

The Company adopted the provisions of ASU No. 2011-02 retrospectively to all modifications and restructuring activities that have occurred from January 1, 2011 through September 30, 2011. As of September 30, 2011, the Company did not identify any loans that were newly considered TDRs under the provisions of ASU No. 2011-02.

Repurchase agreements.  In April 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-03, “Transfers and Servicing (Topic 860): Reconsideration of Effective Control for Repurchase Agreements,” which is intended to improve the financial reporting of repurchase agreements and other agreements that entitle and obligate a transferor to repurchase or redeem financial assets before their maturity. This ASU removes from the assessment of effective control the criterion requiring the transferor to have the ability to repurchase or redeem the financial assets. ASB will apply this guidance prospectively to transactions or modifications of existing transactions that occur on or after January 1, 2012 and does not expect it to have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.

Fair value measurements.  In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-04, “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs,” which represents the converged guidance of the FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (the Boards) on fair value measurement. This ASU includes the Boards’ common requirements for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements, including a consistent meaning of the term “fair value.” The Boards have concluded the common requirements will result in greater comparability of fair value measurements presented and disclosed in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards.

The Company will prospectively adopt this standard in the first quarter of 2012 and does not expect it to have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.

Comprehensive income.  In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-05, “Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income,” which eliminates the option to present components of other comprehensive income as part of the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity. All items of net income and other comprehensive income are required to be presented in either a single continuous statement of scomprehensive income or in two separate, but consecutive, statements—a net income statement and a total comprehensive income statement.

The Company expects to retrospectively adopt this standard by the first quarter of 2012 using a two-statement approach.

Goodwill.  In September 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-08, “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment,” which permits an entity to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test.

The Company will early adopt this standard in the fourth quarter of 2011 and does not expect it to have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.